
Europe Risks Falling Behind Without Strong Property Rights, Experts Warn
Policymakers and economists pointed to bureaucracy and overregulation as key factors driving innovation and investment out of the EU.

Policymakers and economists pointed to bureaucracy and overregulation as key factors driving innovation and investment out of the EU.

Fault lines continue to show themselves in the European Parliament, as the EU finally realises the folly that is its latest iteration of its Green Deal rules.

Under her watch, Brussels ceased to be a boring, technocratic steward of the common market and has become a missionary empire—zealous, punitive, and utterly disconnected from reality.

The role of small and medium-size enterprises becomes the crux of the conflict between a centralized model and the demands for economic freedom.

The next growth story will belong to places that excel at the basics: abundant energy, flexible work, simple and stable rules, openness to trade and investment.

The issue is not technical but political: will Europe choose to innovate and defend freedom, or entrench itself in bureaucracy that suffocates both?

Discriminatory dairy? Smuggling illicit jars of an Algerian chocolate spread into France has become an act of resistance against the ‘unjust’ and ‘unholy’ white men’s laws.

The Commission president “will go down in history as the gravedigger of the Common Agricultural Policy—practically the only thing still common in Europe,” Spanish farm union president Pedro Barato said.

Amid disastrous green diktats and crippling cuts to farmers’ livelihoods, the out-of-touch elites in Brussels seem to have forgotten where their food comes from.
Investors looking to support defense projects in Europe are turned away by the staggering amount of bureaucracy compared to other projects elsewhere in the world.